{"id":139001,"date":"2023-03-22T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=139001"},"modified":"2023-03-22T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T14:28:55","slug":"defend-the-guard-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=139001","title":{"rendered":"Defend the Guard Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am generally for less Government control, particularly when it comes to Federal Government.\u00a0 I keep reading about this Defend the Guard movement and now wondering how it may cause unintended consequences.<\/p>\n

(Boise, Idaho) – Yesterday the Arizona State Senate passed S.B. 1367, the Defend the Guard Act, in a 16-13 partisan vote. This bill would prohibit the deployment of the Arizona National Guard into active combat without a declaration of war by Congress, as required by Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. The Arizona Senate has become the first state legislative chamber to pass the Defend the Guard Act.<\/p>\n

A draft of S.B. 1367 can be read here.<\/a>\u00a0The Senate floor vote and debate can be watched here.<\/a><\/p>\n

“If the president wants to use the Arizona National Guard to fight wars halfway across the world, then it can only be done after a majority of the people’s representatives vote to send them there. If Congress refuses to vote, then its a war the Arizona National Guard should not be fighting,”\u00a0Senator Wendy Rogers (R-District 7) said in her closing speech. Ret. Lt. Col. Rogers is a twenty-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force and lead Senate sponsor of S.B. 1367.<\/p>\n

“So proud of my friend Wendy Rogers,”\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0Kari Lake, the Arizona Republican Party’s 2022 gubernatorial nominee, following announcement of the bill’s passage in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n

“Yesterday was historic. Exactly twenty years and one day after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Arizona State Senate has passed legislation that will ensure their National Guard will never again participate in unconstitutional wars that Congress refuses to take accountability for,” explained Dan McKnight, Chairman of Bring Our Troops Home. “My team and I have laid the groundwork for four years to reach this point. We could not be more proud of all the Arizonans who called their legislators in support of the Defend the Guard Act. Through education we can move mountains and together end our endless wars.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Their mission according to the website, Defend The Guard<\/a><\/p>\n

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Increase public awareness that the states and their voters have a role in deciding when our sons and daughters go to war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pass \u201cDefend the Guard\u201d legislation in a requisite number of states to compel Congress, out of military necessity, to reassert its authority under the U.S. Constitution and take charge of when, where, and how our nation goes to war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Return to a constitutional foreign policy of a limited-government republic by bringing our troops home, ending our endless wars, and only using military force when required to protect the lives, liberty, and property of Americans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This sounds interesting, just like the Convention of States<\/a> did in the beginning.\u00a0 I had to threaten legal action against that organization to take my name off the list of its veteran representatives.\u00a0 I realized it was being led by the people who had hijacked the ‘Tea Party’ movement.\u00a0 \u00a0They make the NRA look like kids when it comes to aggressive fund raising.\u00a0 In the end, they took a great movement and turned it into a marginalized mob.<\/p>\n

Many of these causes sound good in the beginning, but seem to end with a group of loons capturing a Public Restroom in some remote location and expecting continued support.\u00a0 \u00a0As time goes by, there will be efforts to re-write history about the recent wars we were involved in.<\/p>\n

It appears that too many people will not be told about planes flying into buildings or a tyrant shaking a gun over his head and promising the world that the streets of America will run red with their own blood.\u00a0 There are many states that have Defend the Guard legislation pending.<\/p>\n

I have made no decision on the matter… yet.<\/p>\n

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